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Trying to be "More Traditional" than the SSPX: Fraternity of St. Peter Goes Rad Trad for Holy Week. Vatican Gives Permission to Use Pre-Hannibal Bugnini Holy Week. BUT, still kneel for the Jews. Does this mean ALL BLACK Good Fridays Again?

So we will be being faithful to Bugnini and the Vatican-approved Fraternity won't? I told you things were getting weird!
I believe it was Fr. Carl Pulvermacher who said, "They will allow the traditional Mass when they run out of validly ordained priests." Is the Fraternity trying to draw from both the SSPX AND the CMRI?

The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter has been granted an indult by the Vatican Commission Ecclesia Dei to use the liturgical books for Holy Week as they were until the [failed] reform of Pius XII (+1958). The indult is granted ad experimentum for three years.

The information was published in several of the Fraternity’s US-parish bulletins. Each church of the Fraternity has to request permission from the superiors before taking advantage of the indult. According to rumours, 25 parishes have been granted permission so far.

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It is reasonable to assume that since the FSSP and most of their congregants embrace the Vatican II document, Nostra Aetate, willingly support the Benedict XVI teachings on that topic. The exceptions would be those traditional Catholics who are unfortunate enough not to have an SSPX Chapel within reasonable traveling distance. As for the rest, it is clear that they openly endorse the pro-Jewish Holy Week changes made after 1954, otherwise why would they even be attending an FSSP celebrated Mass?

I want to comment soon on the various statements that Michael Matt has made on the "situation" of the "crisis." However, before than we cannot let pass the just released statement by the SSPX on the apostasy of Francis at Abu Dhabi in which he signed a document which states that God willed the diversity of religions. Since this is a denial of the very essence of the Christian faith insofar as he is rejecting the whole purpose of the Church and the very idea of a unique Divine Revelation, originating with the preaching of the Incarnate Word and complemented by the revelation given to the Apostles by the Holy Ghost, I would argue that this is an act of apostasy. This act and such state…

In other words, Francis told el-Tayeb what he wanted to hear, and then told Bishop Schneider what he wanted to hear. He thus created space for plausible deniability for both parties. This is behavior befitting a politician, not the Vicar of Christ, charged with confirming his brethren in the Faith. But after six years of this sort of thing, can we expect anything else? When Francis refused to answer the dubia of the Four Cardinals or the Filial Correction submitted to him by Fr. Hunwicke and many others, his silence in the face of attempted correction indicated, Fr. Hunwicke argues, that the Petrine Ministry had “entered into its current ‘temporary suspense’” and that “we are officially in a period in which the functions of the Papal Magisterium are in a vacatio which will be ended at the moment when the same Petrine Magisterial organ formally returns from dogmatic silence to the audible exercise of the functions rightly attributed to it in Catholic Tradition…” It ought to be obvious …

Dr. Chojnowski: I am still waiting for the document entitled "A Document on Human Fraternity For World Peace and Living Together" to have some real effect upon the "traditional world." Surely, it was a time for "profound reflection." A reflection that would be a summary of all the long train of outrages to the Catholic Religion which have hit Catholics since October 28, 1958. Can it be true that we get a document which is intended to be published throughout the world and used as a constant source of academic and religious instruction, which rejects the fundamental understanding of the Catholic Church for 2,000 years, without it SIGNIFICANTLY changing or at least cementing in place our understanding of where we stand in this "crisis"? What we have with the document "On Human Fraternity" is a PUBLIC ACT OF APOSTASY. …

Lest we confuse when we sling the accusation of "Gallicanism" at those who continue to try to change the Church and the Faith in response to Francis and his abominations, we should define what we mean. Rather we will let Michael Miller, whose "Notes on Church History in France," were published in Dom Prosper Gueranger's book against Gallicanism, entitled, The Papal Monarchy, present the basic definition for us: "'Gallicanism' is a group of religious opinions which for some time was peculiar to the Church in France and the theological schools of that country. This view of the Church tended to restrict the authority of the pope, while extending the competence of the bishops and the temporal ruler."

"Gallican theory acknowledged papal primacy, but claimed that it was limited by the power of princes, by the authority of a general (ecumenical council), by the authority of the bishops, and by the canons and customs of local churches. According t…

Earlier today, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told journalists, including Zenit’s Deborah Lubov, that the importance of this day is dialogue among religions, especially Christianity and Islam, promoting peace and combatting fundamentalism.

Dr. Chojnowski: Have you wondered yet who are these "fundamentalists" who are the main source of evil in our world, the evil ones who are keeping the world from realizing a utopian existence of equality, fraternity, gender equity, and dialogue? I would bet that every one who is now reading this website would be fit into that category by not only the ridiculous women pictured above but by Francis the Apostate and his Imam "fellow believer." What is important here is how "official" it all is. The above statement about "dialogue among religions&…

Faced with the uncomfortable and politically unacceptable reality that there exists no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon, confirmed by his own intelligence community, President Obama has taken a page from the book of his predecessors FDR, LBJ, GWB, and so on: he simply made something really scary-sounding up to justify his push toward war.

It is 2002 all over again, but worse. This time it is the artificially manufactured hype around an Iranian uranium enrichment facility that is under construction. Keep in mind that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Iran, under Article IV of said treaty, has every right to enrich uranium to its heart’s content. The treaty clearly states: “Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity w…